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My experience with the WidowMaker has been almost all positive. It does pretty much everything really good. I have been flying for over a year and I don't think I will outgrow this kite any time soon. It also does things somewhat slowly so it is easier to learn the tricks.

You will find that many kites can do one or two tricks really good (possibly better than the WM), but usually that sacrifices the ability of the kite to do other tricks easily. The WM to me is a great all around kite, if not one of the best.

I found all the positive comments about the WM when I was looking for a kite too and I am now the one writing the positive comments. It is not a coincidence that people like the kite. It really is a good kite.

I have never heard any comments online or in person to the tone of "I wish I didn't buy a widowmaker."

If you have the opportunity to fly a WM before you make the purchase I suggest it. As soon as I flew one I knew that it would be my next kite purchase, but everyone has preferences to the way they like their kite to fly.

Ok I will have to be VERY critical here but I will try to list the few negatives. First one is the graphics but some time on the colorizer will give you a kite that looks completely different than the normal WM look if you don't like the spider look. Second is it can have a bit more pull than most trick kites but though a negative for tricking in 12+ winds its a plus for precision flying. THIRD is the colorizer can drive you nuts picking out the layout you like from all the really nice options FOURTH is there is never enough time to fly it Fifth is the wait once you order it (roughly 4 weeks for a custom)

I have a solus set and love em but still will be adding a WM set to my bag. I fly them whenever my fellow flyers bring them to the fun fly and my only delay is budget and color layout choice(i have about 22 color combos I really like lol) Ultimately you can't go wrong with a WM as it is one of the best all around kites for the money and the Trenephol's are great people to deal with.

Granted my bag of tricks is limited and I don't do combo's but it sounds like you'll be passing through my skill levelso I think my input is relevant.

There was one review you'll find on the kitecliq, or whatever that site is called, that rated it as being as bland as a lite beer since it only did all the tricks but didn't do anything superbly. But that is exactly the point for us learners and those of us who hold no aspirations to travel to France to compete in the World Cup. It may not excel at any one trick, it may not do any trick to perfection, it just does them all satisfactorily while being somewhat forgiving of our inexperienced attempts.

The Widowmaker has been my goto kite for years now. I have other highly rated kites and although the Widowmaker may not be the first kite out of the bag if I want to retry one of them, the wind will usually come up too high or drop too low in our area during the day for me to enjoy those others and I'll haul out the Widowmaker. It is always the last kite I put back into the bag. In fact very often it never goes into the bag, I just put my lineset in it's bag after the others have been packed away and keep it loose so I stand it up behind the front door in the hallway just in case I want to go fly during lunch or after work.

Bottom line? You're not getting one of mine

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